By: Bears Butt
http://insider.foxnews.com/2014/11/12/backed-china-russia-deploy-bombers-over-gulf-mexico
I’m not a political anything and will avoid most arguments and confrontation if I can….however, don’t piss me off.
I was still in high school when I said to one of my friends, “Someday they will announce the take-over of the United States on the 5 O’clock news”….how far are we from that now? I graduated from high school in 1967, it’s now 2014…We are very lucky to still be a United States of America.
This news is not new to me. I could see it coming when we (almost all of us) were demanding more money for the jobs we were doing. We had the world by the tail, so to speak, we had our freedom, our homes, our jobs, our kids, our hunting, our gun rights, our religion (if we wanted it), we had our everything……
I could see the writing on the wall when I worked at a local cement pipe company, my first job out of high school. One of the first guys to approach me was a “labor representative”, who asked me if I wanted to join the labor union. Then when I said no, he said, well, you couldn’t anyway cuz they are going to be laying you off. What? I was just hired two weeks before. Sure enough, I didn’t join the union and I got my notice of severance the next Monday. Reduction in force it said. But I know a kid my age who got hired the week after that….what gives with that? I didn’t care at the time, there were better jobs waiting for me….still labor jobs, but what the heck, I was making $3.85/hour! None of my friends were making that! And I didn’t have to belong to a union, I still got “union wages”……Union wages……The lobbyists were working hard to keep their plushy jobs for sure.
So, I kept my eye on the “unions”, not for any other reason than to see what the unions were doing that was so great for the American worker. What I saw over the next “many, many” years was this: They caused the United States to begin our spiral into the depths of oblivion! There were unions for almost every facet and job type that could ever be imagined. The teachers union, the postal workers union, the miners union, the theatrical union, the sports announcers union, the “you name it” union (I’ve made some of these up….I think). I started working for the U.S. Government after college and the military and sure enough there was a union there. I didn’t join it, but I retained my job, unlike the one at the pipe making plant.
There was a time in American History when the Unions were needed! They helped the working class of America gain enough to make ends meet and not see their own children sold to the highest bidder. Laws were enacted to protect the young labor force and to allow men and women to work and make enough money to buy their own homes and clothes and food and not owe their souls to “the company store”. Tennessee Ernie Ford sang a song about that:
“Sixteen Tons”
(originally by Merle Travis)
Some people say a man is made outta’ mud
A poor man’s made outta’ muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
A mind that’s a-weak and a back that’s strongYou load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don’t you call me ’cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store
I was born one mornin’ when the sun didn’t shine
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
I loaded sixteen tons of number 9 coal
And the store boss said “Well, a-bless my soul”
You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter, don’t you call me ’cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store
I was born one mornin’, it was drizzlin’ rain
Fightin’ and trouble are my middle name
I was raised in the canebrake by an ol’ mama lion
Cain’t no-a high-toned woman make me walk the line
You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter, don’t you call me ’cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store
If you see me comin’, better step aside
A lotta men didn’t, a lotta men died
One fist of iron, the other of steel
If the right one don’t a-get you, then the left one will
You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter, don’t you call me ’cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store.
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And it was about the time this was written that Americans should have started to wake up about the need of a Union. But we didn’t……We continued down that road and paid into the union coffers in order that we be treated equal and/or higher than we though our “bosses” would treat us. We demanded more money for the work we were doing because inflation was taking its toll on our take home pay. We spoke freely about being taxed at too high a rate, and demanded even higher wages….and so it continued and continued.
On the flip side (we are so stupid), the costs of all things we needed or thought we needed continued to rise to meet our ever so pressing demands on getting paid more….still does today huh?…..What will happen if minimum wage goes to $14 per hour? Think about that dummy.
Sure, I’d like to be a million-air some day. Well, with inflation and everything else, make that a “billion-air” some day. (Please click on one of the advertiser on this site…:-))
So, with our greed out of the way (or in the way), the manufacturing plants lobbied very hard to make it OK for them to seek outside the U.S. employment possible so they could produce products “for the U.S.” at a cheaper than could be done “inside the U.S.” rate, to be able to sell to the people of the U.S. at a cost they could afford. (That sounds like a mixed up confusion of confussionary mixedup jargan if you ask me). In order to do that they would have to move their plants outside the U.S. borders and hire locals in the other countries to do the work. Okeedokee. Let’s do that.
Suddenly we are faced with China housing a whole lot of U.S. company plants making hundreds of thousands of U.S. good being sold back to us. Of course we, the U.S. Citizen, like the products because they cost less than the ones made locally and for all intents and purposes work just fine. Well, except for the use of lead based paints, faulty craftsmanship, safety violations (USA standards only of course, not China’s) etc. etc. AND etc.
Why has it come to this? Because of our own greed! We want more money! We want more of everything there is. We became complacent with our “world power”…..we were once the most powerful country in the world….we could kick anyone’s butt. We could out produce any other country, man for man, woman for woman..WE WERE A PROUD NATION…we were a force to be reckoned with. NOW? We owe ourselves to China! We owe ourselves to many countries around the world. If they want to call in “the chips”, we can not pay for those chips and they will announce on the 5 o’clock news just who is going to be calling the shots “tomorrow”.
I’m sorry folks, but it is not surprising at all to see Russia sending their planes to “watch the gulf”…..hell they aren’t watching the gulf at all, they are getting their bombers closer to Washington D.C. so it will be really easy to place a bomb right where they want it. Don’t we use that same tactic to get close to some country we want to “invade” next? We have been doing that since the 1930’s. I’m surprised Russia has taken so long to catch up. But now, they have China backing them. This makes me sick to my stomach. I’m sorry, but it has been coming for a long time and with our current spineless “leader”, we are doomed. Start learning Chinese folks.
Bears Butt
November 12, 2014
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